[Paraview] ParaView v5.2 problems with PLY files with point clouds

[Cory Quammen]

Nenad,

Sorry, this has been sitting in my inbox for a while now.

I tried reading the PLY file you cited [1] with ParaView 5.3. It seems
to read the points just fine.

What might be confusing is that since there is no cell data, the
points are not rendered in the default "Surface" representation. In
the Properties panel, set the "Representation" type to 3D Glyphs, the
Glyph Type to Sphere, and the Radius to 0.05. You'll see the points as
pictured in the attached image.

HTH,
Cory

[1] https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse558/01sp/software/scanalyze/points.html

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Nenad Vujicic <nenadus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I found several PLY files which crashed my ParaView based application. I
> inspected vtkPLYReader.cxx and found (Ln 128-140) that it doesn't even
> support loading PLY files with points.
>
> Example of such PLY file:
> https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse558/01sp/software/scanalyze/points.html
> Example of software which successfully opens such PLY file: CloudCompare -
> http://www.danielgm.net/cc/
>
> Do you maybe have in plan adding support for such PLY files? Has someone
> perhaps already implemented such feature and is willing to share it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Nenad.
>
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Cory Quammen
Staff R&D Engineer
Kitware, Inc.
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